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Navine Roberts
September 21, 1928 ~ May 14, 2019 (age 90)
Ruth Navine Williams Garner Roberts walked through the Pearly Gates (her words) on May 14, 2019.
Navine was the first born of Denzle H. Williams (AKA Denny the Tailor) and Ruth Goddard Williams on September 21, 1928 in Ogden Utah. She graduated from Ogden High School in 1946. She cherished her high school girl friends. They formed a group "club" and met many times a year to celebrate holidays and special occasions. Everyone in her life knew to not get in the way of "club" night. This tradition continued until her death.
She married Rulon Grant Garner in 1947. They had four "perfect" children (her words) Rod, Jone, Brad, and Jill. The Garner home was always the happiest home in the neighborhood and was usually full of friends and good food. Grant and Navine divorced in 1968. Her children would tell you that she was the hardest working single mom, sometimes working three jobs to make ends meet. Still under difficult circumstances her home was warm, fun, and full of laughter and friends.
She married Walker E. Roberts from Portland Oregon in 1979. She inherited six children and twenty four grandchildren. After Walkers death in 1983 she continued to have wonderful relationships with the Roberts family. Her years living in Portland were some of her greatest.
Navine moved back to Utah and settled in Farmington where she spent over thirty five years making lifelong friendships. Her home was the place of many "family fun nights"! There was nothing she loved more than having her large extended family together enjoying good food and laughter.....both always abounded.
Navine was an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. She accepted every call ever extended to her and served two missions - Charlotte, North Carolina and Columbus, South Carolina. One of her favorite church callings was to serve young women at the Farmington Youth Correctional Facility. She served these young women for three years and became known as "grandma" to all of them.
She was a member of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. She was a volunteer for the 2002 Winter Olympics and was eager to share her extensive Olympic pin collection with anyone who was interested.
To know Navine was to love Navine. She had a quick wit and right up until her death was the funniest person in the room. She leaves a legacy of kind service to others, an unconditional love for family and friends, and a simple and contagious joy for life! We have no idea how we will live without you "Grams" so please stay close!!!!
She is survived by her daughters Jone Olson (John) and Jill Williams. Daughters-in-law Maryann Garner and Jill Garner. Sixteen grandchildren and forty six great grandchildren. Brothers Denzle Williams (Pat) Thell Williams (Amy) sisters Jean Shaum and Marcene Wiggins (Brent).
She was preceded in death by her parents, her two husbands, her sister Rama Smedley, brothers-in-law Alan Smedley and Jack Shaum, sister-in-law Mary Williams and her two beloved sons Rodney Grant Garner and Bradley Williams Garner.
Her daughters would like to thank Legacy House of Park Lane and Bristol Home Health for their remarkable care and love.
Any flowers received in Navines honor will be shared with her many friends at Fairfield Village and Legacy House of Park Lane.
Funeral service will be held at 11:00 am, Monday, May 20, 2019 at the Fairways Chapel, 1533 North 1075 West, Farmington, Utah. Viewings will be held Sunday, May 19, 2019 from 6:00-8:00 pm at Russon Mortuary, 1941 North Main Street, Farmington, Utah and Monday from 9:30-10:45 am at the church prior to the funeral service. Online guestbook at www.russonmortuary.com


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Chris Anderson: Al, welcome.
So look, just six months ago --
it seems a lifetime ago, but it really was just six months ago --
climate seemed to be on the lips of every thinking person on the planet.
Recent events seem to have swept it all away from our attention.
How worried are you about that?
Al Gore: Well, first of all Chris, thank you so much for inviting me
to have this conversation.
People are reacting differently
to the climate crisis
in the midst of these other great challenges
that have taken over our awareness,
One reason is something that you mentioned.
People get the fact that when scientists are warning us
in ever more dire terms
and setting their hair on fire, so to speak,
it's best to listen to what they're saying,
and I think that lesson has begun to sink in in a new way.
Another similarity, by the way,
is that the climate crisis, like the COVID-19 pandemic,
has revealed in a new way
the shocking injustices and inequalities and disparities
that affect communities of color
and low-income communities.
There are differences.
The climate crisis has effects that are not measured in years,
as the pandemic is,
but consequences that are measured in centuries and even longer.
And the other difference is that instead of depressing economic activity
to deal with the climate crisis,
as nations around the world have had to do with COVID-19,
we have the opportunity to create tens of millions of new jobs.
That sounds like a political phrasing,
but it's literally true.
For the last five years,
the fastest-growing job in the US has been solar installer.
The second-fastest has been wind turbine technician.
And the "Oxford Review of Economics," just a few weeks ago,
pointed the way to a very jobs-rich recovery
if we emphasize renewable energy and sustainability technology.
So I think we are crossing a tipping point,
and you need only look at the recovery plans
that are being presented in nations around the world
to see that they're very much focused on a green recovery.
CA: I mean, one obvious impact of the pandemic
is that it's brought the world's economy to a shuddering halt,
thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
I mean, how big an effect has that been,
and is it unambiguously good news?
AG: Well, it's a little bit of an illusion, Chris,
and you need only look back to the Great Recession in 2008 and '09,
when there was a one percent decline in emissions,
but then in 2010,
they came roaring back during the recovery
with a four percent increase.
The latest estimates are that emissions will go down by at least five percent
during this induced coma,
as the economist Paul Krugman perceptively described it,
but whether it goes back the way it did after the Great Recession
is in part up to us,
and if these green recovery plans are actually implemented,
and I know many countries are determined to implement them,
then we need not repeat that pattern.
After all, this whole process is occurring
during a period when the cost of renewable energy
and electric vehicles, batteries
and a range of other sustainability approaches
are continuing to fall in price,
and they're becoming much more competitive.
Just a quick reference to how fast this is:
five years ago, electricity from solar and wind
was cheaper than electricity from fossil fuels
in only one percent of the world.
This year, it's cheaper in two-thirds of the world,
and five years from now,
it will be cheaper in virtually 100 percent of the world.
EVs will be cost-competitive within two years,
and then will continue falling in price.
And so there are changes underway
that could interrupt the pattern we saw after the Great Recession.
CA: The reason those pricing differentials happen in different parts of the world
is obviously because there's different amounts of sunshine and wind there
and different building costs and so forth.
AG: Well, yes, and government policies also account for a lot.
The world is continuing to subsidize fossil fuels
at a ridiculous amount,
more so in many developing countries than in the US and developed countries,
but it's subsidized here as well.
But everywhere in the world,
wind and solar will be cheaper as a source of electricity
than fossil fuels,
within a few years.
CA: I think I've heard it said that the fall in emissions
caused by the pandemic
isn't that much more than, actually, the fall that we will need
every single year
if we're to meet emissions targets.
Is that true, and, if so,
doesn't that seem impossibly daunting?
AG: It does seem daunting, but first look at the number.
That number came from a study a little over a year ago
released by the IPCC
as to what it would take to keep the Earth's temperatures from increasing
more than 1.5 degrees Celsius.
And yes, the annual reductions would be significant,
on the order of what we've seen with the pandemic.
And yes, that does seem daunting.
However, we do have the opportunity to make some fairly dramatic changes,
and the plan is not a mystery.
You start with the two sectors that are closest to an effective transition --
electricity generation, as I mentioned --
and last year, 2019,
if you look at all of the new electricity generation built
all around the world,
72 percent of it was from solar and wind.
And already, without the continuing subsidies for fossil fuels,
we would see many more of these plants
being shut down.
There are some new fossil plants being built,
but many more are being shut down.
And where transportation is concerned,
the second sector ready to go,
in addition to the cheaper prices for EVs that I made reference to before,
there are some 45 jurisdictions around the world --
national, regional and municipal --
where laws have been passed beginning a phaseout
of internal combustion engines.
Even India said that by 2030, less than 10 years from now,
it will be illegal to sell any new internal combustion engines
in India.
There are many other examples.
So the past small reductions
may not be an accurate guide to the kind we can achieve
with serious national plans
and a focused global effort.
CA: So help us understand just the big picture here, Al.
I think before the pandemic,
the world was emitting
about 55 gigatons of what they call "CO2 equivalent,"
so that includes other greenhouse gases
like methane dialed up to be the equivalent of CO2.
And am I right in saying that the IPCC,
which is the global organization of scientists,
is recommending that the only way to fix this crisis
is to get that number from 55 to zero
by 2050 at the very latest,
and that even then, there's a chance that we will end up with temperature rises
more like two degrees Celsius rather than 1.5?
I mean, is that approximately the big picture
of what the IPCC is recommending?
AG: That's correct.
The global goal established in the Paris Conference
is to get to net zero on a global basis
by 2050,
and many people quickly add
that that really means a 45 to 50 percent reduction by 2030
to make that pathway to net zero feasible.
CA: And that kind of timeline is the kind of timeline
where people couldn't even imagine it.
It's just hard to think of policy over 30 years.
So that's actually a very good shorthand,
that humanity's task is to cut emissions in half by 2030,
approximately speaking,
which I think boils down to about a seven or eight percent reduction a year,
something like that, if I'm not wrong.
AG: Not quite. Not quite that large
but close, yes.
CA: So it is something like the effect that we've experienced this year
may be necessary.
This year, we've done it by basically shutting down the economy.
You're talking about a way of doing it over the coming years
that actually gives some economic growth and new jobs.
So talk more about that.
You've referred to changing our energy sources,
changing how we transport.
If we did those things,
how much of the problem does that solve?
AG: Well, we can get to --
well, in addition to doing the two sectors that I mentioned,
we also have to deal with manufacturing and all the use cases
that require temperatures of a thousand degrees Celsius,
and there are solutions there as well.
I'll come back and mention an exciting one that Germany has just embarked upon.
We also have to tackle regenerative agriculture.
There is the opportunity to sequester a great deal of carbon
in topsoils around the world
by changing the agricultural techniques.
There is a farmer-led movement to do that.
We need to also retrofit buildings.
We need to change our management of forests and the ocean.
But let me just mention two things briefly.
First of all, the high temperature use cases.
Angela Merkel, just 10 days ago,
with the leadership of her minister Peter Altmaier,
who is a good friend and a great public servant,
have just embarked on a green hydrogen strategy
to make hydrogen
with zero marginal cost renewable energy.
And just a word on that, Chris:
you've heard about the intermittency of wind and solar --
solar doesn't produce electricity when the sun's not shining,
and wind doesn't when the wind's not blowing --
but batteries are getting better,
and these technologies are becoming much more efficient and powerful,
so that for an increasing number of hours of each day,
they're producing often way more electricity than can be used.
The marginal cost for the next kilowatt-hour is zero.
So all of a sudden,
the very energy-intensive process of cracking hydrogen from water
becomes economically feasible,
and it can be substituted for coal and gas,
and that's already being done.
There's a Swedish company already making steel with green hydrogen,
and, as I say, Germany has just embarked on a major new initiative to do that.
I think they're pointing the way for the rest of the world.
Now, where building retrofits are concerned, just a moment on this,
because about 20 to 25 percent of the global warming pollution
in the world and in the US
comes from inefficient buildings
that were constructed by companies and individuals
who were trying to be competitive in the marketplace
and keep their margins acceptably high
and thereby skimping on insulation and the right windows
and LEDs and the rest.
And yet the person or company that buys that building
or leases that building,
they want their monthly utility bills much lower.
So there are now ways
to close that so-called agent-principal divide,
the differing incentives for the builder and occupier,
and we can retrofit buildings with a program that literally pays for itself
over three to five years,
and we could put tens of millions of people to work
in jobs that by definition cannot be outsourced
because they exist in every single community.
And we really ought to get serious about doing this,
because we're going to need all those jobs
to get sustainable prosperity in the aftermath of this pandemic.
CA: Just going back to the hydrogen economy
that you referred to there,
when some people hear that,
they think, "Oh, are you talking about hydrogen-fueled cars?"
And they've heard that that probably won't be a winning strategy.
But you're thinking much more broadly than that, I think,
that it's not just hydrogen as a kind of storage mechanism
to act as a buffer for renewable energy,
but also hydrogen could be essential
for some of the other processes in the economy like making steel,
making cement,
that are fundamentally carbon-intensive processes right now
but could be transformed if we had much cheaper sources of hydrogen.

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Archive for the bachelorette
Posted in American TV (General), American TV Shows, Americans watching British TV, Behind-The-Scenes, BiogTV, British Shows on American TV, Internet TV, Local TV, Reality TV, Reviews, TV Acting, TV advertising, TV channels, TV Criticism, TV Culture, TV History, TV News, Watching TV with tags a charlie brown thanksgiving, ask the storybots, conan, scooby-doo, star trek, star wars, the bachelorette, the crown, the mandalorian, the walking dead on January 2, 2021 by Tom Steward
Am I just too goddamn old to appreciate The Walking Dead: World Beyond?
America was rescued from the brink of fascism by a hair's breadth but, you're right, Chris Harrison, all anyone was talking about in the first week of November was The Bachelorette.
The end credits of The Mandalorian are back!
Covid-19 has turned every reality show in 2020 into the first hour of The Birds.
Star Trek: Discovery boldly goes where Star Trek has gone before.
I sincerely hope production designers on The Walking Dead series are paid handsomely and writers the bare minimum.
How long have the opening titles of reality television been like novelty backwards chronology episodes of 90s shows?
I predict Timothy Olyphant will become the Bart Maverick of The Mandalorian.
My AT & T U-Verse lies to me like Trump to his base.
I see your Werner Herzog and I raise you David Cronenberg.
I previously predicted that Conan would be a Vine by the time my son was at college. He's only three and Conan is already on a streaming platform.
The Bachelorette accidentally revived Bachelor Pad for a season.
Not content with being Space Have Gun, Will Travel, The Mandalorian wants to be Space CHIPS.
I'm surprised there was public outcry when The Charlie Brown Holiday Specials left broadcast television but not when the Peanuts gang were used as shills for an insurance company.
Pictured (l-r): Anthony Rapp as Stamets; Michelle Yeoh as Georgiou; Mary Wiseman as Tilly; Sonequa Martin-Green as Burnham; of the the CBS All Access series STAR TREK: DISCOVERY. Photo Cr: Michael Gibson/CBS ©2019 CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Discovery reminds me of an awards show skit riffing on Star Trek.
The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special could be subtitled The Roast of George Lucas.
The biggest revelation of Showtime's The Reagans is that previous documentaries on the family have all been under the spell of their mythmaking.
Geico sells insurance and condones fraud.
The dialogue in the edited-for-TV version of Scream about The Exorcist being edited-for-TV should have been edited-for-TV.
B is only 3 and can already identify characters on TV shows by their story functions. For example, Fred from Scooby-Doo is "We'll go this way, you go that way."
The Thanksgiving episode of The Mandalorian is brought to you by parents of children who skipped nap and fell asleep at the dinner table the day before.
I'd Ask The Storybots if there is a better example of their kind of show in the whole of television. It'd be a short episode.
I replied "Yes" to Netflix's question about whether I was enjoying Star Trek: Enterprise because there was no option listed for "Not really but I need to watch this for completism's sake."
The Crown faithfully recreates the weekend in the Summer of 1981 when The British Royal Family stalked a CGI Stag.
Mario Lopez stars as Colonel Sanders in a Lifetime Original mini-movie called A Recipe for Seduction … is a honey-mustard trap for TV reporters!
I've spent decades wishing that the actors in Star Trek would loosen up. Discovery reminds me to be careful what I wish for.
Fun game. Watch The Mandalorian on a Holiday Weekend and complete the dialogue every time it buffers.
Having PBS on in the morning and hearing the incidental music from Curious George makes me feel like even my kid is a sophisticate.
The best thing about the home release of The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone is that Francis Coppola does an introduction in front of a bookshelf in the kind of segments typically reserved for movies that American culture is now ashamed of.
If we stop making television about Reagan and Thatcher, do you think they'll relinquish their hold on the future?
Ask The Storybots scratches my itch for exposition dump theme tunes.
When it comes to Star Trek canon, you have to take Enterprise with The Original Series.
Sorry, Mandalorian, but Droid Tales is the only Star Wars canon revision I'm interested in.
I always said that a young Margaret Thatcher was the role Gillian Anderson was born to play but until The Crown I thought I was talking figuratively.
12/10 was a good day to bury backdoor pilots.
I'm a little perturbed that the HBO Max algorithm can't see the difference between Scooby-Doo and The Dead Don't Die.
The Mandalorian is the best version of what you used to do with your Star Wars toys. Although for extra authenticity, Favreau should start throwing disabled He-Man and Ghostbusters characters into the mix.
Star Trek series must be fringe-watched. This is my new term for watching one episode of every series in a franchise at a time.
Ducktales went the way of Glow.
Sense of Schumer
Posted in American TV (General), American TV Shows, Reality TV, TV Acting, TV advertising, TV channels with tags amy schumer, bill cosby, comedy central, inside amy schumer, julia louis-dreyfus, key and peele, patricia arquette, the bachelorette, tina fey, trainwreck on May 27, 2015 by Tom Steward
If you have to get sick of seeing someone's face on TV, make it Amy Schumer's. Why? Well, firstly because being sick of seeing Schumer's face seems to be part of her schtick. Every sketch on her Comedy Central show Inside Amy Schumer is preceded and followed by a close-up of Schumer's face quick-scanning the streets of New York before the camera CSI zooms into her eye. Her face is the lifeblood of every sketch, and even the (mandatory) Twelve Angry Men parody episode in which she did not feature begins with her face dominating the screen. It's also because Amy Schumer's face is interesting to watch. Eschewing the hyperreal expressionism of her peers (not that there's anything wrong with that – Key & Peele are as cartoonish as they come), Schumer's face is a flickering deadpan, oscillating between irony and approval of the characters she plays and those she interviews.
Facial Schumer!
Which is good news because Amy Schumer is everywhere. In fact, it would be perfectly possible to watch nothing but Amy Schumer on TV these days. There's her weekly Comedy Central show which seemingly plays throughout the night (uncensored) on the network, her guest appearances on every late-night talk show around, her work on The Bachelorette (which ABC executives want to expand into a regular thing), and trailer-length promos for her upcoming movie vehicle Trainwreck in the ad breaks. We've seen this kind of momentary ubiquity before, of course, but rarely with a performer of such substance. That may be because Schumer is able to do provocative and powerful material while making it sound like a bunch of harmless Seinfeldisms. She even makes light of the issue-based thrust of her comedy, passing off most sketches as a PSA-gone-wrong, while underlining just how culturally urgent her intervention into modern life is.
Last night, Schumer confronted the alleged crimes of Bill Cosby. The heavily corroborated sexual assault allegations against the veteran comic seem fair game for comedians now and indeed it may be easier for a white female comic to talk about this topic than, say, the black male one who broke the story. It was the level of discussion that was remarkable. Refusing to debate the existence of the crimes (for, as she points out, there is no debate to speak of, despite all legal disclaimers), the court-based sketch was instead a more sophisticated exploration of how nostalgia and cultural comfort food (both real and symbolic, since this was the man who advertised Jell-O pudding pops) interfere with our sense of justice and gender equality. This is really what we struggle to reconcile, not crime and perpetrator. But this isn't the first time Schumer has put her finger on the problem.
She coolly and pleasantly took on perceptions of women ageing with Tina Fey and Patricia Arquette celebrating Julia Louis-Dreyfus' 'last fuckable day' as decided by the media. She did an almost Sesame Street-esque scatological number on pop culture's fetish for women's sticky-out asses with a hip-hop music video set to the rhyme 'milk, milk, lemonade, round the corner fudge is made'. Schumer was there to pinpoint the pathetic paradoxes of middle-class women pole dancing while condescending to women who work as strippers as well as female employees being obliged to be 'cool with' whatever their male counterparts want to do while being paid half the salary. Bravely she slayed a sacred cow of American comedy, the borderline-rapist late-night talk show host, and perversely she's seemed to increase her appearances on these kinds of programmes as a result. She's so popular that even her targets want to be seen with her.
Amy Schumer's parody of late-night…oh wait, that's just her on Letterman!
It would be too easy to say that Amy Schumer's success is down to the sugar-coating she puts on her social criticism, but it's hard to deny that her self-aware baby-face mannerisms (see, the face again!) makes what she does much more palatable. But it's not the cutesy-girl disguise that comedians like Sarah Silverman have used to deflect attention from their obscenity and controversy. It's more direct than that, like having a conversation with someone who seems perfectly nice and you realise hours late they completely destroyed you. That's what translates into mainstream entertainment so well. On The Bachelorette, she exposed the egregious insecurities of a male contestant without ever saying a cross word to him. She's also not afraid of plumbing the lowest depths of entertainment, like dirty jokes and toilet humour, to get what she wants. The time of overkill will come, so enjoy her just killing it.
Watching Century With Americans
Posted in American TV (General), American TV Shows, BiogTV, Reality TV, Reviews, Touring TV, TV Criticism, TV Culture, TV History, Watching TV with tags 20th century fox television, 24, Bill O'Reilly, breaking bad, chopped, david letterman, jay leno, oscars, the bachelorette, vanilla ice goes amish on September 10, 2014 by Tom Steward
You know when anniversary shows try to make out that the second part is different from the first, even though it's just another set of clips with a new (but equally banal) gimmick? Well, now you get the point of this introduction. It's somewhat fitting, however, as what I'm most proud of about this blog is that it is different from one week to the next, even if my obsessions do tend to re-surface like a pardoned 24 terrorist. It's a freedom writing about American TV that you can't have making it. Here's some more re-runs before normal service resumes:
For the second of our hundred television posts celebration that's…erm…crazy like a fox?
'Given that this is how I spend most of my days anyway, it seemed perverse to be treating a TV marathon as the novelty it was supposed to be for the majority of the population. But I'm also not going to miss a golden opportunity to sit in my pants morning, noon and night continuously watching TV on one of the rare occasions it's been deemed socially permissible'
'It's the inverse relationship between the interest taken and the research done that makes American TV's obsession with the British so bemusing to me'
'The Food Network could run Chard Week featuring all the best appearances of the vegetable in the mystery box on Chopped, including the time someone drizzled it with a gummiworm-infused vinaigrette'
'If there's a lesson here, it's that people want reunions more than they ever want to see them happen'
'It seems bizarre that in a country where the mere mention of healthcare can cause the government to shut down, science is such a popular commodity. Yet again and again American TV shows flashing their scientific credentials like phosphorus in a Bunsen burner are more likely to succeed'
'It occurred to me recently that TV talks to us as if we're all amnesiacs'
'Film critics can no more admit to the abysmal hit rate of current movie releases than TV critics can acknowledge that most of the time on-air television resembles an endless sewage pipe'
'One of the places I was surprised to find TV on the air was in the air'
'The show is so ingrained in the city that it's entirely possible to take a Breaking Bad tour of Albuquerque without even knowing'
'Unlike other game shows, The Bachelor(ette) likes to invite its losing contestants back to occupy more senior roles in the programme, like Juan Pablo who was sent home in a previous season and is now The Bachelor. It's like losing Final Jeopardy and then next day replacing Alex Trebek'
'Ok, let's consider how many people in television have ripped off Letterman since he started compared to Leno. And Bill O'Reilly doesn't count, he just happens to be a disgusting Republican who's bad at his job'
'I often feel guilty about recommending shows that don't warm up until a few seasons in. In essence you're asking someone to commit all their free time to something that won't pay off for months. It's like getting someone to invest their life-savings in a niche restaurant that you know won't make any money for the first few years'
'American TV seems to be in a permanent state of finale. The average season has more false endings than a Hobbit trilogy'
'Aside from being the perfect audience since it's guaranteed they haven't heard his music, Vanilla Ice Goes Amish is the feeblest juxtaposition of topics since Ted Nugent tried to fight Obamacare with Dr. Seuss'
'After all, there can't be many clips out there of Orson Welles winding Dean Martin's head 360 degrees with a handle'
'I often wonder how long reality shows would last if there were no repetitions or duplications. Chopped would probably end before it began!'
'Hours of broadcast prior to the official start time of the Oscars are taken up with reporters transmitting live from the red carpet-lined entrance as stars rotate their bodies more slowly than a Virgin Trains toilet door and answer existential questions like "who are you wearing?"'
'Can we jump forward to a time when TV doesn't time jump?'
'With the possible exception of serial killing, the part of our culture most likely to produce copycats is television'
Vanilla Ice takes an Amish selfie…or as they call it a 'self-portrait'.
'At least we now have an idea of what Return of the Jedi would have been like had David Lynch directed it'
Posted in American TV (General), American TV Shows, Reality TV, TV Criticism, Watching TV with tags 24, andy richter, chopped, conan, guy pearce, hbo, memento, the bachelorette, the sopranos, the wire on June 12, 2014 by Tom Steward
It occurred to me recently that TV talks to us as if we're all amnesiacs. Shows are incessantly reminding us of what happened minutes before, when we're not being previewed we're being recapped, and flashback has become the bane of television storytelling. Reality shows are the worst culprits, since their heavy-handed narration and editing permits them to insert extraneous references to past events at will. But dramas and comedies can be just as bad. Think about how many devices there are built into the fabric of fictional TV series to remind us about what just happened; 'Previously On' segments, duplicated action, flashbacks. Such repetition is almost certain to annoy viewers and make them feel patronised, so why does TV always think it's addressing Guy Pearce?
Torture and racism, probably.
When it comes to reality shows, it's safe to speculate that there's an element of killing time here. Visual call-backs are a good way of conserving footage through re-use and along with voiceover re-caps they can easily pad out a show to its allotted time. I often wonder how long reality shows would last if there were no repetitions or duplications. Chopped would probably end before it began! But there are also less cynical motives at play. It's long been assumed by producers that people watch TV in fits and bursts and they don't necessarily watch a programme from start to finish. It's something we critics with our programme-based reviews still don't really get. But it's the impulse behind filling viewers in every few minutes.
Much as we would like to think for the sake of art that TV has fulfilled its potential as a serial medium, it's still pretty much a halfway house between closed and ongoing storytelling. There must still be part-time and sporadic viewers out there or we'd have switched over to continuous storytelling a long time ago, given that it's a feature common to all the great TV out there. We wouldn't need to have these concessions to people who've missed a few episodes or were out of the room if we were all faithful and attentive viewers. As far as flashback is concerned, somewhere along the line it got mistaken for complex storytelling – even though the truth is the opposite – and the rest is history.
TV memory aids are where good television and quality television clash. It's good practice to make TV that responds to the fragmented way a lot of us watch it. But all the shows we associate with quality television are about breaking away from that kind of audience spoon-feeding for something that challenges viewers, even their memories. And it goes to show that the type of television we're always wanting more of and more like in television (The Wire, The Sopranos) is difficult to produce in most contexts. People are paying specifically for HBO so they're going to watch everything and stick with a series for value alone. You couldn't do a HBO show in a place with audiences that are constantly drifting in and out.
Of course, there are limits. It often feels like we're being cheated of new content. Last week The Bachelorette ran a highlights package of its first three weeks in place of a new episode. It will do this again in a special prior to the finale, and then during the Judd Apatow-comedy length finale itself. Most reality show finales are season re-caps. There is a point beyond which you're pandering to people who have missed some crucial moments and simply taking the piss out of the remaining audience. In this way, such shows are their own worst enemies, offering no reward to long-term viewing except seeing it all over again multiple times. You can't count on TV viewers wanting nostalgia like an instant coffee powder.
Late-night talk show Conan has a regular bit called 'Memba This?' in which sidekick Andy Richter repeatedly asks the question in front of a slideshow of recent viral news images. As with many Conan skits, they've distilled how TV works in a matter of minutes. What TV pretends is a 'trip down memory lane' is actually a re-cap of things they haven't had time to forget. Set up as a 'new comedy bit', regurgitation is posing as creativity. And when Conan keeps getting heinous news images, it reminds us that these memory aids are actually TV's way of manipulating the past, not just repeating it. Damn, I'm twenty words short. It occurred to me recently that TV talks to us as if we're all amnesiacs.
Posted in American TV (General), American TV Shows, Reality TV, Reviews, TV channels, TV News with tags @tvinaword, abc, bristol palin, brook, celebrity wife swap, chris harrison, dancing with the stars, desiree, emily, european reality formats, jerry bruckheimer, joan rivers, melissa joan-hart, nick broomfield, reality tv, sarah palin, the bachelor, the bachelorette, wife swap, willow palin on August 20, 2013 by Tom Steward
Despite the name, reality TV is unflinching in its adherence to the conventions of their rigid formats. It's tantalising when a reality TV show throws out those conventions but then doubly deflating when they still manage to collapse under the crushing weight of formula after deviating from format. Breaking with convention has also become a branding strategy for many reality shows (especially the long-running ones) so it becomes difficult to separate an experimentation with format from marketing bullshit. I've encountered a couple of instances of this recently. Celebrity Wife Swap is the US version of a European reality format in which the long-term partners of male celebrities exchange lives for a week. The latest season began with an episode that changed the rules of the game significantly and almost to the point of abstraction. Instead of men swapping partners it was the women that exchanged their significant other, who were also women. The partners were not romantic peers but live-in blood relatives, and different relations on each side. Comedienne and broadcaster Joan Rivers took in Bristol Palin, reality-star celebrity daughter of Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, while Rivers' daughter, TV producer Melissa Rivers, went to live with Willow Palin, Bristol's sister.
You're my wife/daughter/sister now!
This loose interpretation of the format may have been motivated simply by the draw of the personalities involved and the prospect of an entertaining confrontation between Joan Rivers and Bristol Palin after Rivers' frequent jokes about the Dancing with the Stars contestant's weight in the press. But the sister and daughter swap had the potential to undercut the patriarchy of the format and suggest alternative living arrangements or definitions of family (alas none of them gay or friendship-based). It also promised that something different would happen, since the roles of daughter and sister are so incongruous and the impact of exchanging family members unknown territory. Somehow the formula of reality TV resisted these challenges from the reality of family life to reproduce the same outcomes. The couples struggled to understand each other, they seem like they will never overcome their differences, then they do, quickly, saving recriminations for their own spouse and ending with the promise of the couple having a better relationship in the future because of the experience. The peculiar dynamics of the relationships seem to make no difference-be it sibling parents or inter-generational mothers-and are entirely secondary to ticking these boxes every week, more Bruckheimer than Broomfield.
Families are all the same…or they will be by the time we're done.
This year's season of The Bachelorette was billed by host Chris Harrison as having the 'most dramatic finale ever'. Even the studio audience balked at that. By the host's own admission, all season finales are preceded by puffed-up rhetoric promising shocking and surprising twists and turns in the normal course of the show, with a gap between promise and outcome big enough to make it a standing joke with viewers. Last year the final episode of The Bachelorette was cut in half by the contestant choosing her partner early. This was a departure from format that seemed to suggest that contestants were able to mould the conventions of the programme to their desires rather than being cogs in a media machine. But the disruption also annoyed viewers by eliminating the suspense built into the final stages of the competition. It seems that if reality TV was more like reality, with all its loose ends and uneven surfaces, fans of the genre wouldn't necessarily want to watch it. This year's season finale had nothing to live up to and everything to prove. It had to stick to the format to the bitter end while looking like it was a breakthrough moment.
'Keep crying…we've got an hour to fill'
Like last year's finale, the competitive element was jettisoned when eponymous bachelorette Desiree was dumped by her first choice and forwarded the rejection to her most ardent admirer, leaving only one suitor in the running. The finale was split into two parts making a cliffhanger out of the dumping, which only intensified the feeling that Desiree was going home with nothing (excuse the language of commodity exchange but this is basically a game show with prizes). The suspense of the finale strategically shifted to speculation that Desiree's first choice would return to make a two-horse race and doubts over whether she would accept a proposal from her Plan B. The proposal happened, she accepted, and the other man in her life didn't come back to complicate things. It almost seems like the opposite of drama to me, and as conventional an outcome as could be mustered. The viewer was not as cheated by the rhetoric as before but only because the reveal was better paced not because it broke free of the restraints of format. It feels like reality TV shows have become propaganda films for their own formats, defending their orthodoxy against any challenges the outside world might bring.
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First Ever NW Run-Archery Classic to Debut in July
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It started with what Kelly Kreiger describes as a "lightbulb moment."
Kreiger, who owns Hamster Endurance Running, had just returned from a biathlon at Whistler, full of enthusiasm for multisport events, when she found herself on a run on Galbraith Mountain with a good friend, who happened to be an archer. "Bingo," she says. The Northwest Run-Archery Classic was born then and there.
It was only later that Kreiger discovered that multisport events combining running and archery are popular in Europe. The Classic, which will debut on July 27 at the Custer Sportsmen's Club, west of Ferndale, is the first run-archery event in the United States.
Similar to the more familiar Biathalon, an event which combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting, the Run Archery Classic features four short running loops (totaling around 5K) with target shooting in between.
Breaking new ground is not without its challenges. "I am working with a group in Germany to develop international rules for these events," she says. "Run-Archery is quite popular in Germany."
Kreiger is no stranger to event management. Her signature event, Hamster Endurance Runs, is now in its third year. This 6-, 12-, and 24- hour timed event around Lake Padden has now been joined by the "Pooch Scoot", (a 5K run for people with or without dogs ) and "Run Wild Whatcom", a point to point route-finding adventure in Whatcom Falls Park that debuts this year. Kreiger has also served for years as volunteer Race Director for the Chuckanut Foot Race, operated by the Greater Bellingham Running Club.
All of Kreiger's events help raise money for local non-profits. The Northwest Run-Archery Classic will benefit National Archery in the Schools Program and Girls on the Run.
For more info: nwrunarcheryclassic.com
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Does anyone have a simple way to import an entire iPhoto Library into jAlbum? It would have to skip the existing thumbs (or even better. use them!) It should also skip the other non-image files and the Original image copies, etc.
Can't you just go into the "Pictures" folder and drop the "iPhoto Library" folder onto JA?
This would replicate the complex structure of the "iPhoto Library" directory as album hierarchy, including the original images and thumbnails.
However, if you use the Albums folder instead, the result is much better. You'll get an JAlbum album for each iPhoto album.
If you want to create just one flat album with all pictures in the library, create a temporary album with all pictures. iPhoto will create a folder corresponding to this album inside the Albums folder. Just drop this onto JAlbum.
However, these simple methods don't preserve the order of images, and you don't get the comments. I have written a set of scripts which reads this information and converts it into a format which JAlbum understands. It's by far not ready to be released, but if enough people are interested, I might try to wrap it up.
and was pleased to find that it writes titles and comments from selected photos in iPhoto to IPTC files. I then exported the photos to a folder and on the editing tab of JAlbum I clicked on IPTC and the comments appeared! There is no corresponding IPTC button for the label (i.e. Title), but I exported the photo from iPhoto with "use title" and "use extension". Also, I had to "write to file" after bringing the comments up in the JAlbum editing window or they wouldn't come through on Make Album.
In any case, that means that titles and comments can all be set in iPhoto, which I really like, because I can see a group of photos all at once and that gives me a general sense of the comments I want to write. It's terrific to finally be able to pull titles and comments from iPhoto. With handcrafted html, I always had to copy/paste.
The whole setup can be read by JAlbum (I was using the ShowOff skin), and printed to the album pages. Works like a charm.
So, when you said you didn't have the comments, I wonder if you didn't know about Caption Buddy. If you have it already and still lost comments, it could mean that iPhoto couldn't handle a very large file transfer and dropped off the comments. I've found that it can overload on large projects and malfunction on details, so I break things up into smaller batches (like when uploading to iDisk, etc.).
If you are abble to get the title, comments and Keyword from an iPhoto Album into JAlbum, Yes I am indeed interested.
I've used Caption Buddy, and it does a great job w/ Comments and Titles. But most important to me is Keywords, and Caption Buddy ignores them.
Well, I just got Caption Buddy and it is cool. However, it offers the option to write BOTH title and comments to the IPTC fields. Yet, JAlbum apparently doesn't understand the title that Caption Buddy writes. I guess?
I also have the iPhoto scripts from Apple, which include similar IPTC commands, but none of them work. Caption Buddy does, at least as far as the comments fields. There's got to be a way of getting titles in there, besides exporting.
The problem with the file export method from iPhoto (with filenams set to title), is that then you spaces in your filenames if you have spaces in your titles. And then JAlbum puts spaces in your HTML files, which is a pain for long file names.
I have written a set of scripts which reads this information and converts it into a format which JAlbum understands.
set FileIs to true -- exists, and was left open. Tch - tch.
else -- Uh-oh. Something else.
error erm number errnum -- and we're outta here.
Yes, I'd be very interested in a script that would take my iPhoto album in order to JAlbum.
I tried to get the above to run, but it wouldn't go past the "album.text" thing.


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Angle mode is generally considered easier to fly. Especially on micro quads.
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AB InBev to pour more ad spend into social media
AB InBev has signaled plans to pour more of its media budget into social media campaigns after revealing it has learnt how to use the marketing channel 'more effectively' following the success of its Super Bowl activity.
By Seb Joseph	 27 Feb 2014 10:46 am
Video: Bud Light Super Bowl ad starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
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The brewer told analysts yesterday evening (26 February) it was planning to "step-up" marketing spend in 2014, particularly in social media, to take advantage of the World Cup.
The Super Bowl campaigns for its Budweiser and Bud Light brands had left it with better best practice examples on how to generate buzz before, during and after big global events, it added.
AB InBev shifted more of its media spend to social channels such as Twitter and Facebook for this year's game, a move it said generated a record "60 million views" and dominated "all brands in the US in terms of social conversation" around the event.
It ran a total of five ads, three for Bud Light and two for Budweiser, but integrated them far more with its social media and digital activations than previous Super Bowl efforts. FMCG companies such as Mondelez have been making similar moves in an effort to reduce wastage from their media budgets and rely on cheaper marketing channels.
Carlos Brito, chief executive of AB InBev, said: "We believe that 2014 Super Bowl execution was our best ever with our brand generating nearly half of all social media traffic during the game across all categories, giving us great insights into how to best connect with millienials."
The insights will fuel the brewer's attempts to cascade social media initiatives throughout the world after it claimed television has become a "secondary medium" to social channels when developing marketing campaigns.
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Category Archives: Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
SCOTUS cites CGEL (props to Justice Gorsuch and the Supreme Court Library)
When grammatical questions come up in cases, the lawyers and judges will want to support their arguments and analyses with citations to books about grammar. Most of the time, they cite books intended for a general audience, such as the McGraw-Hill Handbook of English Grammar and Usage, The Elements of Grammar, Strunk & White, and various books by Bryan Garner; and books intended for lawyers, such as The Grammar and Writing Handbook for Lawyers and (again) various books by Bryan Garner.
Unfortunately, none of those books gives an adequate description of English grammar, which is a subject that is much more complex than most people realize. If you're looking for a book that can speak about the subject reliably and with authority, the leading candidates are two books that are both known by the initials CGEL.
One is the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002), whose main co-authors are Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey Pullum. The other is the Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (1985), by Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, and Jan Svartvik. If you're dubious about my statement regarding the complexity of English grammar, you should note that both of these books are enormous: the text of Huddleston & Pullum exceeds 1,700 pages, and Quirk et al.'s exceeds 1,600 pages. If you ever have occasion to hold a copy of either book in your hands, be careful not to drop it on your toes.
Up until today, Huddleston & Pullum had been cited by U.S. courts 24 times, and Quirk et al., 12 times. The courts in question included the federal courts of appeals for the Fifth and Sixth Circuits and the supreme courts of Colorado, Minnesota, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. But not the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Timothy Bottorff- On April 8, Timothy Bottorff, 41, Kailua Kona, HI, was arrested on a St. Clair County warrant charging him with a class D felony possession of a controlled substance and a class D misdemeanor unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia. Total bond is set at $10,000 cash or surety.
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Jason Groves- On April 8, Jason Groves, 27, Springfield, was arrested on a St. Clair County warrant charging him with failure to appear in court on an infraction of speeding. Bond is set at $181 cash only.
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Katherine Mitchell- On April 6, Katherine Mitchell, 51, Garden City, was arrested on a St. Clair County warrant charging her with a probation violation on a class C felony possession of a controlled substance. Bond is set at $5,000 cash only.
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John Hoyt- On April 3, John Hoyt, 48 Clinton, was arrested on a St. Clair County warrant charging him with a class D felony of non support-total arrears in excess of 12 monthly payments due under order of support. Bond is set at $2,500 cash only.
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The charge comes after a St. Clair County deputy was dispatched to check on a male subject that was stuck in a ditch. While making contact with Hubert, the deputy could smell a strong odor of alcohol. The deputy performed a sobriety test, which Hubert failed. Hubert consented to a breath test and blew a .257, which is more than three times the legal limit.
Alexander Willis- On April 3, Alexander Willis, 23, unknown, was arrested on a St. Clair County warrant charging him with failure to appear in court on a class D misdemeanor for operating a vehicle without insurance and a class B misdemeanor exceeding posted speed limit by 20-25 mph over. Total bond is set at $561.50 cash only.
The charges come from a traffic stop by the Missouri State Highway Patrol on Dec. 11, 2017.
Randy Craig- On April 2, Randy Craig, 59, El Dorado Springs, was arrested on a St. Clair County warrant charging him with a class B felony stealing livestock-value more than $10,000. This is a no bond warrant.
The charge comes after Craig bought 22 head of cattle at auction using a bad check. Total value of the cattle was $20,930.70.
Michelle Martin- On April 2, Michelle Martin, 29, Haysville, KS, was arrested on a St. Clair County warrant charging her with failure to appear in court on a class C felony possession of a controlled substance. Bond is set at $5,000 cash only.
The charges stem from a traffic stop by the Missouri State Highway Patrol on May 19, 2014.
Travis Matzke- On April 2, Travis Matzke, 35, El Dorado Springs, was arrested by a St. Clair County deputy on a class D felony possession of a controlled substance. Matzke was booked and released pending formal charges.
The arrest comes after a St. Clair County deputy pulled over a vehicle that Matzke was driving for a traffic violation. During questioning, the passenger of the vehicle willing opened a box to show the deputy. Inside the box were prescription pills in a plastic baggie.
Crystal Beckmon- On April 2, Crystal Beckmon, 36, Fair Play, was arrested by a St. Clair County deputy on a class D felony possession of a controlled substance. Beckmon was booked and released pending formal charges.
The arrest comes after a vehicle that Beckmon was a passenger in, was pulled over for a traffic violation. During the conversation with a deputy, Beckmon removed a zip lock bag from her person and handed it to the deputy. The baggie contained marijuana residue and prescription pills.
Terry Sieleman- On April 2, Terry Sieleman, 39, Appleton City, was arrested on St. Clair County warrants charging him two probation violations. Total bond is set at $10,000 cash only.
William Grant- On April 1, William Grant, 34, Cassville, was arrested by a St. Clair County deputy on a Barry County warrant charging him with a class C felony robbery in the second degree. This is a no bond warrant.
Isaiah Folkert- On March 31, Isaiah Folkert, 21, Harrisonville, was arrested by a St. Clair County deputy on a warrant from the Lee's Summit Police Department for failure to appear in court on an infraction/municipal ordinance. Bond is set at $1,000 cash only.
Michael Noble- On March 30, Michael Noble, 34, Sedalia, was arrested by a St. Clair County deputy on a class D felony possession of a controlled substance, a class D misdemeanor unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia, and a class E felony unlawful use of a weapon-possess weapon and a felony controlled substance. Noble was booked and released pending formal charges.
The arrest comes after a St. Clair County deputy stopped a vehicle that Noble was driving, for a traffic violation. After speaking with Noble and the passenger, Noble gave consent to search the vehicle. During the search of the vehicle a rifle along with a pipe used to smoke methamphetamines with were found. Noble admitted that the pipe was his.


Brides today want to change up their wedding and do something to make them stand out! One way to do that is to make your bouquets less that traditional by using puppies! More and more people are doing this to raise attention towards adoption of animals. Some brides even make sure that their wedding party are all in places in their lives where they can actually adopt the puppy that they chose to take photos with!
Make a cute sign to promote the SPCA that you are working with!
Have real flowers for the ceremony and the grab a puppy to take cute photos with!
All smiles promoting such a good cause, and celebrating the marriage of two people!
The couple is extremely passionate about animals, especially rescue dogs. They couldn't of imagined their ceremony without adding these little ones!
Bryan's recounting of their story, starting with how he and Maggie shared their first moments of laughter in the common room of his college dorm, illustrated a love built on many years of friendship and one that many dream about one day calling their own. Soft shades of seafoam green juxtaposes elegantly with the stark tones and lines delineating the UVA Chapel where they married. Photography by Meredith Sledge is truly captivating, not only transforming everyone's celebratory spirit from this special day to into tangible memories but also allowing those of us not present at the event to get a feel of the joy and cheer!
As usual, we enjoyed every moment of working with our excellent team of vendors! This wedding would not have been possible without you!
There's something about an all-white wedding that's timeless and elegant. But if you aren't careful, they can turn out a little outdated or feel overdone! Have no fear, The Patchettes are here to walk you through how to celebrate your all-white wedding as the chic affair it should be! The key is to use nature (your outside ceremony space, greenery in your decorations or bouquet) to accent the white and make it feel fresh and airy. This takes your wedding to feeling as light as air! We love this trend, check out all the different ways to incorporate white into your summer nuptials!
How breathtaking is this outdoor ceremony space?
Usually wearing white to a wedding is a faux pas, but in this case it's encouraged! Dress your wedding party in all-white for a cohesive look.
These centerpieces are simple and elegant.
How delicious does this cake look? I'm getting hungry just looking at it!
There are plenty of options for white flowers for your bouquet. This bride incorporated greenery to make her blooms really pop.
This ceremony space is amazing, the simplicity and use of nature makes it absolutely perfect for any bride who wants to use white in their wedding!
The Patchettes can't wait for another summer filled with beautiful weddings! For more inspiration or pretty paper visit us at The Dandelion Patch on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!
Proposal season has come to a close, meaning bridal showers are popping up left and right! If you're planning a bridal shower, we've got some great ideas for you! Impress your lovely bride-to-be and all her gal pals!
Create a beautiful tulle photo wall for a fun activity with your gals!
We love the idea of sharing your engagement shots at the shower!
Our Patchettes can create all sorts of fun signs for you!
Don't forget the succulent and greenery trend!
Finally, simple color palettes and decor will please any bride!
Did you know that we also create shower invitations, tags, and signage? Make an appointment with our Patchettes for all your pretty paper needs! Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for more tips too!
"Inspired by the summer romance, this gorgeous wedding editorial features a veritable dream team of Washington, DC wedding vendors," says Elizabeth Anne Designs. And frankly, we couldn't agree more! Everything about this shoot at the historic Dumbarton House is soft and beautiful and leaves us wishing for summer all year round. You won't believe how many gorgeous floral pieces were perfectly created by Edge for this editorial; the results are absolutely jaw dropping.
From the timeless lace gown to the truly incredible cake from Buttercream, you won't be able to stop staring at the beautiful images photographed by K. Thompson Photography.
French signs at the sweetheart table for the new Mr. & Mrs.
Eiffel Tower centerpiece – so gorgeous!
Pont des Arts inspired love lock guest book.
Loving this Paris chic palette!
Louboutin wedding shoes – I'm drooling!
Destination wedding IN Paris – how fabulous.
At the end of every wedding, there's a grand exit – so why not go out in style! Here are some fabulous getaway cars that we adore.
In love with this "just married" wreath!
Love the colors, and that tassel banner!
Perfect for a New York wedding.
Golf cart made adorable with your married monogram!
Talk about a fabulous exit!
Nothing wrong with a getaway scooter!


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Q: Trying to bind a local datasource data to a listview in Kendo MVVM I am new in Kendo MVVM. Trying to bind datasource data to a listview but it does not show the data.Tried to mix and match all available examples. Want to use the template which is not working. Here is the code sample
http://dojo.telerik.com/IwawE

A: Your data binding declaration is incomplete and results in javascript errors when kendo tries to instantiate the listview.
data-bind="source:gsSystem,
           visible: isVisible,
           events: { click:  }"

Firstly, there is no 'isVisible' property on your view model so the binding will return 'undefined' resulting in the listview not being shown. Either remove that binding or add the property as part of the model, for example:
isVisible: true

Secondly, there is no function defined for the click event. Usually you would specify one such as:
events: { click: onClick }

and add the handler to the model:
onClick: function (e) {
    alert("Clicked");
}

However in the case of the ListView, there is no click event available. Instead, remove the event from the ListView declaration and add it to the div within the template instead:

A: Modified the dojo with the fixes
http://dojo.telerik.com/IwawE/5

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Famed Santa Fe burger joint to reopen in Albuquerque
KOB Web Staff
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- A popular Santa Fe restaurant that closed in 2018 is being revived in Albuquerque.
Santa Fe Bite will open a new location in Nob Hill.
Thomas Baca, the managing partner of the new restaurant, said he's excited to bring a little Santa Fe to Albuquerque.
The new location will be on Central, between Tulane and Amherst.
"It's going to be a lot of fun," he said.
Baca said not much will change. Customers can expect the same type of burgers they enjoyed in Santa Fe.
"We'll do the same shakes, ice cream, we'll do the sweet potato fries, not too many things will change at all," he said.
Noting that the restaurant industry is like family, Baca said they've even hired the same employees.
The idea to bring the restaurant to Albuquerque got its start around the time the Santa Fe location closed in October.
Baca and two friends approached Santa Fe Bite's owners, John and Bonnie Eckre, with the idea.
"Bonnie said, 'Wow what a great team it would be,' and she would be honored to allow us to be the first franchisee to do this," Baca said.
Baca also revealed there are also talks to return the restaurant to its roots in Santa Fe.
The Albuquerque location opens at 11 a.m. on Monday.


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Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre is seeking individuals for employment as a Scenic Artisan for the 2019 summer season. Each summer UFOMT produces 5-6 mainstage shows in repertory, 2-4 concerts, and other events during our festival season. The Scenic Artisan will work with the Scenic Charge Artist to handle all scenic paint needs, and provide running crew and changeover support for two or three shows, as well as some concerts and other festival events. We are looking for self-motivated individuals who can prioritize and execute required duties. Qualified applicants should have a strong background in scenic painting with proficiency in standard scenic painting techniques. Standard scenic construction techniques and repertory theatre experience are a plus. Applicants should be highly motivated, able to lift up to 75lbs, and ready to work in a fun and exciting environment in the beautiful mountains of Northern Utah. All contracts include salary, round trip transportation, and furnished shared housing (private bedroom in shared apartment). Please send resume, cover letter, and two references to Cassandra Coulam, Artistic and Company Administrator, to apply.


the functions are the Bionic wave repelling function, flash repels function, ultrasonic repelling function. The bird repeller can be covered a big area, easy to operate. So far, most of the bird repellers have simple functions, low intellectualization, not obvious effective, but this model bird repeller is hot sales.
◆ Adopt imported ARM chip as control core, and the audible unit adopts High-decoding-rate MP3 chip. High-quality voice.
◆ The shell adopts Class 6 waterproofing standard, which can work well outdoors.
◆ Ultrasonic is at high frequency which can be adjusted from 15000HZ to 30000HZ, multi-angle and frequency conversion working, effective to repel birds.
◆ Built-in 64M flash chip. Besides, users can put a large-capacity storage card in the chip and change the sound to their needs.
◆ This Bird Repeller has two ultrasonic outlets, two high-power digital bionic wave sound speakers, 6 flash lights.
◆ Rechargeable, it can be charged by AC 220V, solar power and etc.
◆ Able to set different modes of working period: Working all day long mode, Working in the daytime and stopping in the evening mode.
◆ Automatic play mode, easier to operate.
◆ Built-in many effective birds repelling audio which has been recommended and tested by the expert.
◆ The flashlight adopts super bright LED light – strong white light and far infrared rays.
◆This product is energy-efficient, whose standby power consumption is less than 0.5W.
◆ This bird repeller can repel a different kind of bird fast and has a long effective time. For its changeable and ceaseless ultrasonic, birds cannot adapt to it.
(3) About PIR, its working mode switch is under the device, when the switch is set to the left, it is "working all day long" mode.
When the switch is set to the right, it change to the "daytime work only" mode (the device will work according to the detecting light), users can adjust it to meet their own needs .
(4) Built-in two storage ways for sound - TF card and FLASH, users can use one of them to their own needs .
(1) The device is built-in Flash 64M storage, which can connect to the computer through USB cable. The number of sounds storage depends on the size of each file.
(2) The product also has a TF card port, so you can connect the computer and then modify the sound in TF card.
When putting the TF card in, the device will read the TF card only and stop playing the sound in flash 64M storage.


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TWIN TEMPLE: new single
RELEASE DIGITAL SINGLE
"LET'S HAVE A SATANIC ORGY" | "TENGAMOS LA ORGÍA SATÁNICA"
CURRENTLY ON TOUR WITH GHOST & VOLBEAT
The crossroads, the intersection, the place where the devil makes her deals; it's there that the fusion of two seemingly divergent forms of magic can erupt into the genesis of something never before witnessed, and it was there that TWIN TEMPLE cast a spell that unleashed a fascinating sonic creature from the depths.
Today the Satanic Doo-Wop duo offers fans a new single, "Let's Have A Satanic Orgy". The release includes a flip cover in Spanish entitled "Tengamos La Orgía Satánica" with the lyrics poetically re-worked to fit the beauty of the language.
Their newest single also marks a departure from TWIN TEMPLE's previous ways of working. "Unlike the 24-hour live session with the band," explains Zachary, "this time we played every instrument ourselves (other than the saxophone) as well as produced, engineered and mixed the record ourselves. We still kept everything analog and one take to give it a raw feel, but it was just the two of us in the studio together doing everything. It allowed us to expand the sounds and gave us the freedom to add more instrumentation. We always like to stir the cauldron and change things up, and we were excited about challenging ourselves in this evil new way."
TWIN TEMPLE Alexandra comments, "We love Latin music. It's an integral part of early Doo-Wop and a huge influence on us. This latest single is us continuing to explore that concept and sound in our own blasphemous way, of course. We chose to have a flip cover for the 7″ as opposed to having an A-Side and B-Side so that the Spanish and English versions are equal. They'll be released simultaneously as well, to reflect that equality."
Purchase/listen to "Let's Have A Satanic Orgy/"Tengamos La Orgía Satánica" here: https://bfan.link/TwinTempleLHASO
TWIN TEMPLE is bringing their black mass to arenas across the world on two of their biggest tours to date. Currently, the duo is with GHOST and VOLBEAT on their tour across America, and in April 2022, they will again join GHOST on their European arena tour with UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS. TWIN TEMPLE will also return to Europe for a run of summer festival dates, including Download, Hellfest, and Graspop (www.twintemple.com/shows).
TWIN TEMPLE live:
With GHOST & VOLBEAT
1/25/2022 Reno Events Center – Reno, NV
1/27/2022 Climate Pledge Arena – Seattle, WA
1/28/2022 Ford Idaho Center Arena – Nampa ID
1/29/2022 Veterans Memorial Coliseum – Portland, OR
1/31/2022 Maverik Center – Salt Lake City, UT
2/02/2022 Ball Arena – Denver, CO
2/04/2022 Pinnacle Bank Arena – Lincoln, NE
2/05/2022 Target Center – Minneapolis, MN
2/07/2022 Nationwide Arena- Columbus, OH
2/08/2022 Giant Center – Hershey, PA
2/10/2022 Prudential Center – Newark, NJ
2/11/2022 DCU Center – Worcester, MA
2/12/2022 BB&T Pavilion – Camden, NJ
2/14/2022 Petersen Events Center – Pittsburgh, PA
2/15/2022 Huntington Center – Toledo, OH
2/16/2022 Van Andel Arena – Grand Rapids, MI
2/18/2022 Allstate Arena – Rosemont, IL
2/19/2022 Heritage Bank Center – Cincinnati, OH
2/20/2022 Fiserv Forum – Milwaukee, WI
2/21/2022 Chaifetz Arena – St Louis, MO
2/23/2022 Cable Dahmer Arena – East Independence
2/25/2022 Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land – Sugar Land, TX
2/26/2022 Fair Park Coliseum – Dallas, TX United States
2/28/2022 Don Haskins Center – El Paso, TX United States
3/01/2022 Footprint Center – Phoenix, AZ United States
3/03/2022 Honda Center – Anaheim, CA
With GHOST + UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS
UK/Europe Dates
4/09/2022 Arena – Manchester, England
4/11/2022 The O2 – London, England
4/13/2022 Hydro – Glasgow, Scotland
4/15/2022 RWA Arena – Birmingham, England
4/17/2022 RTM Stage Ahoy – Rotterdam, Netherlands
4/18/2022 MACCOR ARENA – Paris, France
4/19/2022 Lanxess Arena – Cologne, Germany
4/21/2022 Quarterback Immobillen Arena – Leipzig, Germany
4/22/2022 Festhalle -Frankfurt, Germany
4/24/2022 O2 Arena – Prague, Czech Republic
4/27/2022 Nokia Arena – Tampere, Finland
4/29/2022 Avicii Arena – Stockholm, Sweden
4/30/2022 Oslo Spektrum Arena – Oslo, Norway
5/01/2022 Malmo Arena – Malmo, Sweden
5/03/2022 Vorst Nationaal – Brussels, Belgium
5/05/2022 Mediolanum Forum – Milan, Italy
5/07/2022 Olympic Arena Badalona – Barcelona, Spain
5/08/2022 Vistalegre Arena – Madrid, Spain
5/11/2022 Stadthalle – Vienna, Austria
5/13/2022 Hallenstadion – Zurich, Switzerland
5/15/2022 ZAG Arena – Hannover, Germany
5/16/2022 Olympiahalle – Munich, Germany
5/18/2022 Arena – Budapest, Hungary
Festival Appearances
6/10/2022 Download Festival 2022 – Derby United Kingdom
6/17/2022 Graspop Metal Meeting 2022 – Dessel Belgium
6/19/2022 Hellfest 2022 – Clisson France
Deviating from the standard path calls for a soundtrack of rebellious music, that which TWIN TEMPLE brilliantly procures with hypnotizing and illustrious melodies. Much like their mood-driven, defiant inspirations, Alexandra concludes that "this [music] is about change; tearing down the old guard, and shaking up the status quo, which to us, is Satanic as fuck." The hellish flames of the temple can be seen burning bright into 2022, with plenty of further news to come.
by: staff January 28, 2022
European tourghostLet's Have A Satanic Orgynew singleNuclear BlastSatanic duotourTwin TempleUncle Acid & The DeadbeatsVolbeat
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When I decided to coach my son's soccer team, I looked at the dates carefully as coaching is a 14 week commitment and it's twice a week. I knew that the spring would be difficult as I had other things going on; from June through the rest of the summer, I have more flexibility with my time. My only real need in terms of coaching was making sure that my obligations to the team were over before I would be running the Quebec City Marathon, my marathon of choice for the fall. I diligently counted the weeks of soccer from start to finish and – perfect! Soccer ends the week before Quebec.
I don't need to marathon in the fall. I BQ'd in Chicago last October and I plan to run Boston. My goals in and out of a fall marathon are to build a stronger mileage base and improve my BQ time. Running in August makes perfect sense as I won't have to deal with high mileage during the craziness of back to school and registration for Boston is at the beginning of September. The Quebec City Marathon, which has been on my bucket list for years and years, is August 28th.
Hubby and I started to plan a mini-holiday to Quebec City and the province with the boys, possibly travelling into the maritimes. We looked into accommodations. Training was going well. Then, one evening, when going over the snack schedule for soccer, I thought twice.
"Um….why is Festival Day on the 27th?" I wondered. Looking again, I saw that we are scheduled to play on the week before Quebec City. How is that possible? I went back to the calendar and counted 14 weeks again. "The last week ends on the 20th! I don't get it!" I looked at the calendar again, carefully. The players have a week off at the beginning of August! Why didn't I realize that? Ugh! There is no way that I can coach on the 27th and get to Quebec City on time to pick up my race kit. Even if we play the first game and I fly, timing would be dicey.
I contemplated not going to the last two games of the season, our weekly game and the Festival Day event. But I always teach my boys that when you make a commitment to do something, you follow through with it to the end. Volunteer work is no different. I made a commitment to my team and the soccer club that I would coach the boys for the season. Had the marathon date been in the middle of the season, I might take off a game. But at the end of the season, it's a different story. It would look like I quit or gave up on the team. How can I not coach for almost 4 months and, then, not be at their final game? Even if some of the boys don't see it that way, what kind of message am I sending them? Is it okay for a coach to miss the final game and your trophy day? Not really. So, I am not going to run Quebec City. As I often tell other running friends when they have their own race conflicts, there is always another marathon.
Toughing it out in the heat during Marathon Training. Note the soccer field behind me.
So now the hunt for a fall marathon begins and there are only two conditions; it has to be in Canada, and it needs to be before the end of October. I've narrowed it down to Run Victoria (B.C.), Scotiabank Toronto, and Prince Edward Island. Before the end of July, I hope to have worked through the logistics and will register. Meanwhile, my training continues as I work towards building my base and bettering my BQ time.